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TABLEOFCONTENTS中文摘要..........................................................................................................................................IABSTRACT................................................................................................................................IIChapterOneIntroductionResearchbackgroundWithnumeroustheoreticalandempiricalstudiesconducted,thebeliefthatwordsarebestlearnedincontexthasbeensuggestedbythemajorityofresearchers(Sternberg,1987;Pitts,WhiteKrashen,1989;Nation,1990;Hulstijn,1992;Coady,1997;Walker,2001;Yu,2003;Wang,2010).Thoughbeingabroadconceptandveryhardtodefine,intermsofvocabularyacquisition,contextcanberegardedasinformationandsourcesthatconsistofthesurroundingtextandlearner’spriorknowledge.Itisarevisiontointegratethereader’s―internalization‖oftextintothereader’s―prior‖knowledge(William,1992;LauferHulstijn,2001).Contextworksasthebasisinrecognizingandunderstandingmetaphorandmetonymy,helpstodisambiguatewordsenses,predictsensesandtestpredictions,andalsoincreasesthedepthofprocessing(LuppescuDay,1993;CoadyHuckin,1997).Researchersarguedthatsincethemeaningofawordisgeneratedfromcontextandcontextprovidedameaningforit,comparedwithdirectlearning,learningincontextismuchbetterinvocabularyacquisition(Krashen,1989;Williams,1992;BuikemaGraves,1993;LauferHustijn;2001;William,2004).Contextworksasacentralpartintheaccessofdifferentmeaningsinintentionalandincidentalvocabularyacquisition.Intermsofitseffectontheacquisitionofpolysemywhosenumberishugeandsensesarevariousandcomplicated,manyresearcheshavebeendoneincludingeyemovementexperiments(Randy,2010;FrazierRayner,1990),Event-relatedpotentialinvestigations(Van,Brown,Hagoort,2001;WillemsHagoort,2008;Zhong,2013),thinkaloudmethod(Xu,2010)andotherempiricalexperiments(Verspoor,1997;KeDong,2001;VerspoorLowie,2003;Zhang,Xing,Zhou,2003;SunZhou,2005;Zhang,2007;Zhao,2006;ZhaoLuo2008;Guo;2012;StephaniGregory,2012).Therearemanyfactorsinfluencingtheeffectivenessofcontextonvocabularyacquisitionsucha